Dad's Trip

As you know, our dad recently visited his Amish friend Tim in Indiana.  These are a couple of  the highlights of his visit.  This is our dad speaking:

"One of the things that tickled me on my visit to Amish country was when I was riding in the horse and buggy with my friend, Tim. He is 26 years old, married and they have a baby girl. Tim was born and raised Amish.  As we were driving to one of his neighbors' farms, there was buggy after buggy full of Amish - some were men driving the horse and some were women - they were all nodding and giving the Amish wave to Tim. Most of them looked horrified to see me - a man in shorts wearing sunglasses riding alongside Tim. They smiled and waved just the same. 

I saw many Amish women in their full Amish dress, which is a long dress down to their ankles and a white cap tied onto their head. Many were riding bicycles with groceries hanging out the back or there was a small cart attached to the bicycle with supplies in it.
I saw several women cutting the grass in their full Amish dress. They were pushing very large mowers.  I couldn't help but smile watching these women as they were mowing their lawns." 

(Dad did not take this picture. We snagged it off the internet. He says that the women he saw had less hair showing beneath their caps but their dresses were very similar with long sleeves.  Imagine cutting the grass at 99 degrees in long sleeves?!)

"Next we went past a farm where a little boy was running along between a nice white fence and  barn. He looked to be maybe 7 or 8 years old. He had blonde hair and was wearing a pair of farmer jeans with suspenders. He had a white button shirt on and his pants were rolled up. He was smiling from ear to ear when he waved to us. He was running through cow poop that seemed to be almost up to his knees and he looked as happy as could be."

Dad also was in Chicago for a couple of days at an Indian motorcycle dealership!  Big surprise, right!

Dad said he had a great time taking a spin on a 2010 willow green and cream Indian Chief! 

 No, he didn't come home with it, thank doG!

From Chicago, it was onto Madison, Wisconsin, where the USA Transplant Olympic games took place!

Check out the view from Dad's hotel room window!

It's the state capital building all lit up at night!

No medals this time and this year dad competed in the long jump for the first time ever.  He said he came darn close to getting a medal in this event!  Next time, dad!

This is the shirt that dad and the members of Team Connecticut wore at the games.

 

Dad had a great time but he is glad to be home and we're sure glad to have him home!

So until next time.................

Love ya lots,

Maggie and Mitch